New York City Ballet dress rehearsal
Free tickets to the April 29, 2007 final dress rehearsal for the New York City Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet will be distributed on April 22nd at 9:00 am.
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For several semester we’ve had a ton of CD’s, DVD’s, VHS tapes, books and other minutia piling up in our center. Despite all our efforts it was a tough sell getting students to use them for independent study. Part of the reason for the resistance is that we required students to use the media within the center so as to minimize loss and damage. Since archiving these resources in Tutortrac’s library we’ve had a small but steady stream of students borrowing items. We no longer worry about loss and damage since there is an electronic record of each transaction. Except for the upfront archiving our library is now pretty much of a turnkey operation. Very useful feature.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Helpful Firefox extensions for Tutortrac
The Firefox browser extensions Resizeable Form Fields, Repagination, Colorful Tabs, ReloadEvery and NoSquint are helpful when performing repetitious Tutortrac work. Resizable form fields allows you to enlarge windows within Tutortrac and other applications so that you can view the entire contents at a glance. If a list of items span multiple pages, Repagination allows you to view the entire list in one browser window. Used in conjunction with Resizeable Form Fields, Repagination reduces the amount of keystrokes and open windows (demo via lifehacker). Colorful Tabs allows you to open and manage multiple tabs (a firefox feature that reduces the need for multiple windows). It is especially helpful when examining multiple records from a list. ReloadEvery reloads your screen every so many seconds or minutes that you specify. Helpful for monitoring sign-in traffic. Finally, NoSquint remembers text size preferences so that you can set and forget when using Firefox.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Descriptive essay exemplars
Writing descriptive essays is one of a number of assignments that you will be given in college. Robin Givhan, style editor for the Washington Post, has won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Her series of articles under consideration incorporate description in a manner that is illustrative of the genre. In her 2005 article “An Image a Little too Carefully Coordinated,” Givhan wants her readers to see that John Roberts, Supreme Court hopeful, is out of touch and apace of the times. She uses the words “nostalgia” and “1950s-style” in the first two sentences to set her tone. By the time the reader gets to the word “seersucker,” a type of fabric, the reader feels like a “sucker” for having been taken in by his “nostalgic costuming.” Ghivan frequently references popular culture to make her writing current, and her apt references make sense. See this “Condoleezza Rice’s Commanding Clothes” to get the full impact and “Dick Cheney, Dressing Down.” Writing, be it descriptive or otherwise, can be both fun to read and impactful, as indicated by Ms. Givhan’s award. Click Pulitzer for prize winning articles and Givhan for more current articles.
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